The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-08-13
NEWS GLEANINGS.

The circular of Secretary Fairchild,
OF the United States treasury, offering
to prepay interest on government
bonds, has ELECTED large number of
responses, the amount called for up TO
the 9TH, extending over less than a
week, was 1881 600 \ rebate OF . per
cent is to be allowed the government
10y the holders of the bonds
Thomas G.. WuOlialk is under arrest at
Macon, Ca, charged with numbering his
father, stepmother, their six children
and an aunt of Mrs Woolfalk, aged go
wears, IN a country neigh hbOrhood near
that city. He was taken TO Macon to
avoid a threatened lyuching, as the cir
cumstantial evidence against him is said
10 be very strong.
Whitelev's drapery and general stores
and ware houses, in Paddiugtor, London.
We're damaged on the 9th 10 the extent
of q $50, 600 by fire. The collapse Of a
bridge between two of the buildings pre-
cipitated a number Of tiremeu and EN-
ployes a distance Of fifty feet, killing
five outright.
Fifty tons of rock fell on the the 9th
in the Cascade tunnel, on the Northern
Pacific road, near Ellenshnrg, W. T.,
killing four men and wounding several
others.
The delegates to the nineteenth an
nual convention of the Catholic Total
Abstinence Union, ut Philadelphia, on
the 9th presented to Grand Master
Workman Powderly a gold medal set
With diamonds.
Charges are made ofimprOper methods
i'm vogue at Castle Garden by which in
noceut foreigners are alleged TO be swim
died by the immigration commission
ers, particular reference being made to
railroad trauspo tation and exchange.
An accident on the Newport News 4
Mississippi Valley Railroad near Green
wood, Va, resulted in the killing of one
man and the iniuring of dozen others.
Two buildings were destroyed and
two men killed at Cincinnati on the 4th
by a cvClOne
During the parade of the Ohio Knights
of Pvthias, at DAYTON, on the 9Th, six
officers and twentv-one knights were
Frustrated by the heat. The thermOme-
ter registered 90 in the shade
The appellate court at Chicago on the
Sd affirmed the decision of the court be
low in the foreclosure proceedings
against the land now known as the vii
lage of COlehOur The mortgage was
cOnsummated before the town came into
existence, and covers property valued
at sl50,O0O.
J. B. Waller, a well-knowu Chicago
millionaire, died at his residence near
that city on the Sd. He was 70 years
old.
Fire, which began in the saw-mill OF
John B. Owens, at Fast Saginaw, Mich,
on the Sd, destroyed property valued at
Sl37, 600 before il was eXtlnguished.
Mrs. AIaese, the wealthy widow Of
Juan Naese a late prominent citizen OF
Northern Mexico, was murdered ut her
residence near Paso del N0rte on the 2d.
The murderer is supposed to have been
an lllegltimate son OF the wOman's hus-
ba.d. who according to the Mexican law
would get a share Of the property on the
death Of the widow.
Fire on the ID destroyed the houses
on both sides OF st. Dominique Street,
Montreal, from Napoleon to St. Jean
Baptisro Street, rendering fifty families
homeless.
As had been announced in previous
dispatches. nearly all the iron works AT
Pittsburg closed on the 2d. owing TO a
strike to enforce the one-iob rule.
The planning mill and lumber yard Of
James Bell, at Cairo, H., was destroyed
by fire on the %. Loss, $40 600.
George Gould denies the story which
has been teiegaphed all over the
country to the effect that his father was
interested in the great American
Chinese bank about to be established
in Shanghai.
The election in Texas on the 4th re
suited in the overwhelming defeat Of
the prohibition amendment. The ma
ioritv being estimated by different dis
patches all the way from 10000 TO l00
0O0.
George Pratt. living at Troy, Mo,
murdered his father-in-laW, Martin >ed-
lack, on the ID
The miners in the Hooking Valley
struck on the lst to enforce their de
mand for semi-momthly payment Of
wages. The proprietors had deter
mined TO paw only monthly
The election in Kentucky on the lst
inst. resulted in the choice Of Gen.
Buckner for governor by about 10000
majority. The legislature viii be largely
Democratic.